RichmondUX has hosted three previous Rosenfeld Media virtual conferences, all at the Gather RVA downtown location. Though we love hosting events at Gather, the largest space available allows only 40 attendees.

Based on past interest in these virtual conferences as well as last October’s “User Research in the Age of the Customer,” we felt a larger venue would make sense. Thanks to United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) for opening up their main conference space for us, allowing us to double the number of possible attendees. We hope you can join us at the local viewing of User Research for Everyone!

Anyone can conduct effective user research. You just need to know how.

Your company might still believe there’s not enough time or money to do research right. Or maybe you lack professional researchers on your team. Or you’re new to user research and need to gain confidence and experience. Don’t let those issues stop you. The User Research for Everyone one-day virtual conference will show how to succeed with research that leads to products users want to use, buy, and recommend to friends.

Agenda

9:30-10: Check-in and open networking

10-10:45am: Just Enough Research with Erika Hall

11-11:45am: The Right Research Method For Any Problem (And Budget) with Leah Buley

Noon-12:45pm: How to Find and Recruit Amazing Participants for User Research with Nate Bolt

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Posted: May 8, 2009| Author:teaguese|Filed under:research|Comments Off on New Journal in Information Architecture

From ASIS-l:

The Journal of Information Architecture inaugural Spring 2009 Issue, Issue 1, Volume 1, is now available online at http://journalofia.org/.

Table of Contents

Dorte Madsen
Editorial: Shall We Dance?

Gianluca Brugnoli
Connecting the Dots of User Experience

Helena Francke
Towards an Architectural Document Analysis

Andrew Hinton
The Machineries of Context

James Kalbach
On Uncertainty in Information Architecture

Issue 1, Volume 1 is an invited authors only issue and abstracts and full papers in PDF format are available at the Journal’s web site. Articles will be available as XHTML pages as well in the coming days.

The Journal of Information Architecture is an international
peer-reviewed scholarly journal whose aim is to facilitate the systematic development of the scientific body of knowledge in the field of information architecture.

This first issue is freely available to the public. Each subsequent current issue will be accessible first to Information Architecture Institute [http://www.iainstitute.org] members, while the archives will be available to everyone.

“Our design sessions frequently result in debate about which of two words is more compelling or accurate for our users, or whether a particular button is noticeable in a particular location. When we can, we test designs on real people using paper or digital prototypes, but it is impractical to test every day; sitting down with real people is not always as simple as you’d expect, what with the schedules of busy New Yorkers…

So, we set out to create our own rapid-testing usability laboratory from scratch, and last Tuesday we launched it, in rough beta form. Nicknamed Infomaki, it’s showing a lot of potential even in its first 48 hours.

It’s not groundbreaking technology. Built on a Rails back-end (my rapid-prototyping framework of choice), it currently supports two kinds of tests: standard multiple choice (with optional “Other:” box) and a “Where would you click…?” screenshot that records click locations.”